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Old 10-23-2006, 05:54 AM   #9 (permalink)
hulk
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Originally Posted by Bossnass
I'm not saying that burn in is impossible, but you'd have to be pretty ignorant and try pretty hard for it to happen. Potential for burn-in should not be an issue with current plasmas.
With Plasmas, it's not so much burn-in as it is the phosphors that produce the image aging at different rates. When I first got mine I played a few hours on the gamecube at full brightness, leaving a distinct outline of the Soul Calibur II life bar on the top. I panicked, read the net, where someone had advised that playing it on an untuned analogue station, essentially just playing the static, will erase it. Lo and behold, after about a week it was gone.

These days I've played for hours, even run a computer desktop on the screen for most of the day (granted at a low brightness) and there's been no remants that have lasted longer than the next power-on.
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